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THE PUBLIC FORUM
PROGRESSIVE BOYS' REPUB
LIC. Are you interested in the future
citizens of the state? Are you anx
ious to learn how and by whom the
state is governed? -I you are there
is now a chance for you to cultivate
your abilities for future use.
The Progressive Boys' Republic of
Illinois is a club organized for the
purpose of developing the bodies and
minds of the future citizens.
This organization will benefit its
members by encouraging social, lit
erary and athletic activities. In short,
this association is one from which
you would undoubtedly derive many
benefits that can better be realized
than described. From the Boys.
LABOR AND LAND. I reiterate
my statement that the land plays a
minor part in the production of
wealth.
Labor applied to natural resources
produces wealth. Land by itself
never produced a dollar's worth of
wealth. It's only function is to sup
ply the raw material out of which
labor produces the wealth.
I might have a million acres of
land covered with a fine crop of
wheat, but if it were impossible to
apply labor to that field (that is, to
harvest it and get it on the market)
I would still be poor.
Or I might own every seal in Alas
ka, but as long as they were at large
they would not constitute wealth.
Only after they had been caught and
prepared for market would they be of
any value. There is nothing in the
world that is valuable that was not
made so by labor.
I neither thought nor said that we
could live without the land, for it does
supply our natural resources. But I
have just explained that even these
natural resources have no wealth
value until someone exerts his labor
power on them. Mr. Hunt Says:
"Tools can only add value to ma
terials taken from the earth." As a
matter of fact, these materials have?
no commercial value as long as they
are in the earth, but only after laboi .
has taken them from the ground and
prepared them for market And the
tool enables the laborer to do his
work 'quicker and better than he
could possibly do it otherwise.
"Capitalism" and "monopoly" are
not synonomous, but the former in
evitably leads to the latter as behold
the Standard Oil and a few of our )
other trusts instead of the hundreds
of separate companies of a few years
ago. But that is a separate question
entirely. Mrs. John Kanka, Oak
Park.
MAN-MADE LAW. In reading
The Day Book and other independent
publications it is encouraging to note
the rapidly-growing conviction that
all man-made laws and governments
are worse than folly; that they are a
violation of natural rights, were con
cieved principally in the brains of
conscienceless scoundrels that their
lazy bodies might live from the. toil
of others. They are a profanation
and a sacrilege in that they contra
vene the law of nature and assume
the province of the Ruler of the uni
verse. Millions of years ago men were
forced to band together for self-protection
against stronger animals. By
the aid of a more cunning intelligence
we long since subdued by murder
and every evil means all other ani
mals and have applied that same pro
cess to ourselves. The strongest
brute with a club became the king
man. We yet select the biggest and
coarsest specimens of our species to
clnb us about as of old.
Note the -pblice pushing, hauling
and dragging into courts of law the A
workers of both sexes- who are striv
ing to improve the conditions of ex
istence for every one. From such
ancient concepts has grown that end
less category of enactments entitled
laws, and a horde of mental scaven
gers called lawyers, from which
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